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犄 is a noun referring to animal horns or, more broadly, corners and angular projections in objects. As a phono-semantic compound, its left-side radical 牛 (ox) indicates the semantic category related to horned animals, while the right-side component 奇 provides the pronunciation "jī". This character is most commonly used in the colloquial compound 犄角 (jījiǎo), which denotes both literal animal horns and figurative corners or nooks in a space. Its meaning consistently centers on pointed protrusions, formed by the direct combination of an animal radical and a phonetic element.